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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
I’m not. I do think it’s a false equivalency though.
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Explain why. It's literally the same type of phenomena different species. We didn't isolate the gene that causes birds to choose mates with colorful feathers. We just noticed the dimorphism and deduced the selective pressure from that.
Sorry but yeah you can. Those are very robust theories but they can still potentially be overturned. Scientific method 101.[[
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It holds up great and is a fantastic read. Some of it doesn’t apply to insect behavior though so there was more to the story.
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Are you referring to ant and bee colonies?
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I just want to say I don’t have a human exceptionalist attitude about this.
Now that we’ve mapped the human genome when there’s a claim of sexual preferences and proclivities the next step is isolating the gene. Then a geneticist can tell us when on our evolutionary path did that mutation take place. Until then it’s a big maybe.
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I know you say you don't but until you can explain to me the distinction you see between the bird example and us that is my default assumption. sorry. but sometimes bias is not recognized.